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El Centro Crime Rate Report (California)

El Centro crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 26 years with violent crime decreasing and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in El Centro for 2026 is expected to be lower than in 2025.

The city violent crime rate for El Centro in 2025 was lower than the national violent crime rate average by 24.69% and the city property crime rate in El Centro was lower than the national property crime rate average by 40.56%.

In 2025 the city violent crime rate in El Centro was lower than the violent crime rate in California by 42.98% and the city property crime rate in El Centro was lower than the property crime rate in California by 49.1%.

Property and Violent Crime
El Centro Property Crime vs. State and National Per Capita
El Centro Violent Crime vs. State and National Per Capita

El Centro Crime Statistics
Summary Report

2025 Crime (Actual Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault87
Arson11
Burglary123
Larceny and Theft206
Motor Vehicle Theft74
Murder and Manslaughter0
Rape10
Robbery12
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)768
Property Crime403
Violent Crime109
2026 Crime (Projected Data)*Incidents
Aggravated Assault91
Arson11
Burglary39
Larceny and Theft0
Motor Vehicle Theft59
Murder and Manslaughter2
Rape12
Robbery16
Crime Rate (Total Incidents)388
Property Crime23
Violent Crime121

Property and Violent Crime Totals

El Centro Property Crime

El Centro Violent Crime

Actual versus Projected Crime Totals

El Centro Crime 2025

El Centro Crime 2026

City versus State versus National Crime Comparison

El Centro Property Crime vs. State and National Comparison

El Centro Violent Crime vs. State and National Comparison
* The source of actual data on this El Centro, California crime rate report is the FBI Report of Offenses Known to Law Enforcement for the corresponding year or years. Arson numbers are reported inconsistently. Zero values may indicate the data was not available. The projected crime rate data displayed above was generated from the trends found in the years of actual reported crime data on file. In this case, the El Centro crime report data for 2026 was projected from 26 years of actual data. The last year of actual available crime data, as reported above, was 2025.

The FBI cautions the data users against comparing yearly statistical data solely on the basis of their population coverage. The comparisons made herein are thus, only meaningful upon further examination of all variables that affect crime in each reported city, state or other reported jurisdicition.



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